Dade

Full definition of dade

Verb

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To walk unsteadily, like a child; to move slowly.
• DraytonNo sooner taught to dade, but from their mother trip.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To hold up by leading strings or by the hand, as a toddler.
• DraytonLittle children when they learn to go
  By painful mothers daded to and fro.